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Joseph O. Wedding, an old citizen OfVigo county, has two boys, twins, nowseven years old, that preserve the mostremarkable resemblance. They arenamed Harry and Jimmy, and bear suchclose likeness to one another that it isimpossible, when they are dressed alikeas they always are, to tell them apart.In fact, Harry wears 3 little piece ofleather 011 the but on of his coatso that he can tell himself whichone he is. When either boy isasked his name up goes his hand tQthat button, and if the leather is therehe says “Harry,” and if it isnt, he willtell you his name is Jimmy. One night their coats were changed and for a weekthose twins were hopelessly m ixed usHarry’s knee wa6 rubbed with liniir.efor the tocth ache, and Jimmy had atooth pulled out to cure a soreknee, to the mutual astonishment ofthose bewildered infapts. Their lathehas drilled them in the manual of risand it is said that a .perfectlyober man, who saw them once goinghrough their evolutions, was so thcroughfly persuaded that he saw double, that hemade all his preparations to go to aninebriate asv lum until the mystery waexplained. They were in town to dayand were weighed. The most delicatescales failed to detect a hairsweight difference between them-Their father proposes to irakefarmers of them and they start out ontheir agricultural careers by looking asmuch alike as two peas. They arewithal fine boys, bright eyed, quickmoving, and intelligent, veritable andcreditable chips of the old block.
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Terre Haute Weekly Gazette
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 18, 1878
Page 4
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